Meijer Boekbinder Fund
Goal: To support UU-related projects that improve animal health and/or welfare
Initiator: Meijer Boekbinder Fund Foundation
Research funding
The Meijer Bookbinder Fund makes a significant contribution to research, education, and social services in the field of animal welfare in the broadest sense, as conducted at Utrecht University.
Examples include genetic research with a view to improve breeding, research into the care of groups of animals (shelter medicine), research into and the development of methods to replace, refine, and reduce animal testing, or projects with a social impact involving students or staff from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
For whom?
The following are eligible for support from the Meijer Boekbinder Fund:
- Projects at Utrecht University that make a structural contribution to improving animal health and/or welfare.
- Initiatives aimed at providing information about animal welfare also fall within the scope of the fund's objectives.
- Animal welfare projects initiated by foundations or organisations outside Utrecht University. A condition for these applications is that there must be an opportunity to enrich these projects through the research and/or education of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and to make the project results sustainable.
To submit projects within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the project must have been approved internally and this must be recorded on the cover sheet. In addition, the content of the project proposal will be assessed by the MBF's spending advisory committee.
Please note: Operating costs and costs related to facilities are not eligible for a donation.
An annual amount of €100,000 is available for grant applications.
About the fund
The Meijer Boekbinder Fund Foundation was established in 1997 by Alida Boekbinder. She was the widow of Frederik Godfried Meijer and served on the foundation's board until her death in 2005.
The Meijer Boekbinder Fund Foundation achieved its objective by providing financial support to projects that make a structural and sustainable contribution to the health and welfare of animals, particularly pets. The fund mainly invested in (scientific) research into, for example, breed improvement and education about animal welfare. On May 25, 2024, the foundation was transferred to a fund in the name of the Utrecht University Fund.